Cute eye - Attention: only for camera freaks!

It is delicate. She is cute. And - it is a mimosa. Minox spy cameras as a manufacturer historically interesting offers with this pipsqueak a real toy for camera lovers. Here are five star adequate if you know what can provide such a miniature device and where the limits are. Within these limits, the 5.1 really beats passable. The fixed lens is for her little very nature, some, after having dealt with the correct settings for white balance. The automatic white balance produces in some recording conditions, though more annoying color casts, which however no longer worthy to be in the correct selection of white balance options offered. For automatic Pampered is also the issue of "sharpness" to the challenge that the camera delivers all the way to old fathers custom of the good and reasonably high-intensity optical lens beautiful and really sharp images. - But only if according to the situation, a reasonable distance (0.5 m, 1 m, or "infinity") is set! Taking into white balance and distance settings have the recordings of good quality, in most cases even significantly better than those with good mobile phone cameras. A photographer with a passion will account for the periodic adjustment of the camera to the ambient conditions slightly. Snap shooters who like to focus on fully automatic, will be disappointed here but certainly not least on the speed of the meter and as you come up against limits.

When charging of the lithium-ion batteries should be very cautious approach: It is advisable in any case, to open flap for battery storage during charging and gently nachzukühlen occasionally with breathing air, because the thing can be very warm but. Be sure you should one behind inserted SD card is also removed before the battery charging process, which of course does not go then, if you simultaneously want to synchronize your device with the PC. And here I am already at the next adventure: a PC, which is operated by Win7, the little guy will not find on a supplied USB cable and my search for a suitable driver remained so far without success even on the Minox page. A way the photos (summarizes the 65 photos of the best quality) on the device's internal memory are stored to copy to the PC, so I previously could not see what a little already bothers me. Here is not even a star adequately.

The user interface is simple and a bit fiddly at first. But if you have become accustomed to erblättern single, important for good photos settings in the functional menus, you can live with it - if you love this photo dwarf.

The Aufschiebesucher doing a good job and facilitates definitely the live view in sunshine when the display can no longer illuminate against the light flood. He also looks simply spectacular.

CONCLUSIONS: This Minox have to love or you will turn away in horror. Technically they can be somewhere in 2003 to settle. Facing what modern shoot cameras allow, it is pathetic pathetic in their Leistungsspektum. But it comes as a Puritan miniaturized retro photo camera and the photo quality is really having some foreknowledge and when operated properly is not bad. But the appearance and delicate minuteness are simply stunning. As a photographer, I am glad that I have other cameras. But as a lover of technical gadgetry and occasional Fotospielchen from the hip makes me this camera always weak.